Akinmuyiwa Bisola grew up in Itun Agan community – an informal settlement nestled alongside the port of Lagos. She is a founding member of the Nigerian Slum / Informal Settlement Federation media team, and focuses her storytelling around shining a light on human rights abuses in Lagos’ informal settlements. On our film, Bisola also served as a Producer and First Assistant Director. Aside from her film work, she is a trained community paralegal, rendering legal support to those in her home community.   Atinkpo Segun Elijah is from Otodo Gbame, the community on whose story our film is based. When his home was demolished in the forced eviction of his community in 2017, he began pursuing film & storytelling as a means for spotlighting the story of his community and creating change. On LVQ, given his close connection to the community, he was a key contributor to story development and performance direction, and has also created numerous other projects focused on issues of forced eviction and urban displacement.   Edukpo Tina, like Elijah, was born and raised in Otodo Gbame community, the community on which our film is based. She is a mother and advocate, and was deeply involved in the 2017 resistance to the forced eviction on Otodo Gbame, and the protests, storytelling efforts, and advocacy campaigns that followed. Among her many contributions to the film, Tina channeled her own experiences with Egun folklore to give shape to the film’s magical realism, and led the mobilization efforts of cast within the communities we worked in.   James Tayler is an award-winning filmmaker who has made three fiction feature films. Previously a core member of the Yes! That’s Us collective, and an alumnus of the Rotterdam Lab, Berlinale Talent Campus and Project Market, Produire au Sud Nantes, and África Produce, James directs and edits social justice films dealing with the issues of displacement and new urban realities, and has helped establish grassroots media teams in South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe.   Mathew Cerf is an award-winning narrative & documentary filmmaker, photographer, and writer specializing in co-creative, grassroots storytelling. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, Mat spent three years in Lagos, Nigeria teaching film and working on projects aimed towards amplifying the narrative perspective of urban poor communities. Among others, Mat draws inspiration from Kat Cizek’s co-creation manifesto, the Third Cinema movement of Latin America, and the work of Mary Ellen Mark.   Okechukwu Samuel grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, but his mother is Ghanaian, and he spent several adolescent years living in the Volta region of Ghana. Sam is a gifted artist, writer, and cinematographer. He was the Director of Photography on IF WALLS COULD TALK (AFRIFF – 2023). Along with being a writer & director on our project, he was also the camera operator for the film, and a leading voice in sculpting the film’s visual language. Sam continues to create films & photography focused around themes of urban inequality in Lagos.   Ogungbamila Temitope is a filmmaker from Isale Akoka community in Lagos. Alongside dreams of becoming a lawyer to help women in her community confront gender-based violence & discrimination, Temi is a filmmaker and photographer focused on shifting the narrative of informal settlements in Lagos. She also organizes workshops in her community to teach photography and digital storytelling to young people, as a means of creating skills for economic advancement and reframing of community narratives.